Showing posts with label Jan & Zwaan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jan & Zwaan. Show all posts

Monday, 26 August 2024

Outdoor living, alright

After the apocalyptic rain on Saturday, yesterday the weather was lovely enough for our Grand Picnic to go ahead in Regent's Park - the first one that hasn't been rained-off for a few years! We had a proper swing band playing the bandstand, and there was even a "swing dance tutorial" going on, which proved very popular in the sunshine. A great finale to a hectic yet very enjoyable couple of weeks off...

It may be our last Bank Holiday here in the UK until the Festering Season, but I haven't forgotten it's a Tacky Music Monday, dear reader!

With happy memories of our weekend in Amsterdam still very much in our hearts and minds, here's something suitably Dutch (and completely crazy) to fit the bill:

Make the most of the sunshine, folks!

Wednesday, 5 August 2020

Essential oom-pah for beginners



We are firm believers, Madam Arcati and I, that people need more "oom-pah music" in their lives.

Continuing our mission of enlightenment, and our countdown - as we head up to stay with the boys in Essex to begin our holiday (we depart from Stansted for Amsterdam tomorrow evening) - here are two grootmeesters of that very genre, for your delectation. Former shoe saleswoman Zwaantje van de Belt-Pieters and former plasterer Jan van de Belt [for it is they] had string of hits in the Netherlands over a career that spanned five decades, and this was their greatest...

...all together, now:


Geweldig!